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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: Letter Salutations
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 10:14:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 10:14:21 1986
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In article <715@osiris.UUCP>, jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
> 	After working in an office where everyone from the director down
> to the lowliest clerk (me) was female and getting all our mail addressed
> to "Dear Sir" (pretty damned irritating after awhile) I have taken to
> addressing all my correspondence of this nature to "Dear Gentlefolk".
> 
...Which reminds me that the late George Abell, when he headed the
Department of Astronomy at UCLA, designated himself "Chaircritter".

-- 
Glend.	I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hot.	Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
	do call for them?    --  Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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